From May 25th

Do you ever find that some days, when you go to the bathroom, it smells like stuff that you haven't eaten? Earlier this week, it smelled of sweat and Dinty Moore stew. Today it smelled like Trix cereal. What’s up with that?!?
ANYWAY, enough about that....(I too have the Dorn-talking-about-their-bowels-disease).
From Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective by Carl P. Malmquist :
The average American by age 18 years will have viewed 250,000 acts of violence, including 40,000 murders on television.

In a report by the National Academy of Sciences, it was noted that the annual risk of becoming a homicide victim had risen from 1 in 12,000 in 1987-1988 to 1 in 10,6000 by 1990. However, the lifetime risk of homicide was much greater, with the highest lifetime rate in six demographic groups being among black males. Their rate of 4.16 is equivalent to a 1 in 24.1 chance of dying by homicide. For American Indians, the risk is 1 in 57, whereas for white males and females the risk is less than 1 in 100.

Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice for a 25-year period ending in 2000 indicated that for all homicides, males were the offenders in 12.1% of cases and victims in 23.6%. Women were especially at risk for intimate killings, sex-related homicides, and murder by arson or poison. In turn, women are more likely to commit murder as a result of an argument or to murder by poison. These rates can be further broken down as follows:
Male offender/male victim, 65.2%
Male offender/female victim, 25.0%
Female offender/male victim, 7.2%
Female offender/female victim, 2.6%

Seasonal factors have been studied to determine the incidence of violence, including homicides, by calendar month. The UCRs indicate that most homicides occur in the summer, but the months with the highest homicide rates are July and December. These high-rate periods may simply reflect periods in which there are greater interpersonal contacts and social mingling.

Some interesting facts are that in the United States there are annually 6 million pregnancies and 4 million live births, with 18,000 neo-natal deaths and 28,000 infant deaths. Twelve percent of births are to teenage females between 15 and 19 years of age.
As late as the early 1800s in Europe, up to a third of live-born infants were killed or abandoned by parents. In the United States, homicide is now the leading cause of infant deaths due to injury, with more than 80% of infant homicides considered fatal child abuse. The highest-risk group is composed of the second or subsequent infants born to a mother who is younger than 17 years of age.